Download or read book Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. written by Iravatham Mahadevan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.